- Hair
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- Nov 07, 2020
Look Quotes
On perspective, hindsight and how we choose to see things.
The quotes here range from looking back on a career with no regrets to noticing how children in very different places can end up facing strikingly similar struggles. For more on outlook, see our Life quotes.
- Last Updated on Jul 30, 2026
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to watch out because being an athlete and playing at the college level with the opportunity to go the NFL, you're under the microscope and everybody's watching. There are people that look up to us. So you have to watch out for what you do and who you're around.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm retired someday, when I'm done playing football, that's when I'll be relaxing and look back at some things.
- Jazz
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of times, we look at jazz in eras. How can we not keep those eras separate and think of the language as one complete continuum? It's all interrelated, and it's all evolutionary.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
To develop drugs for people, we basically dismantle the system. In the lab, we look at things the size of a cell or two. We dismantle life into very small models.
- Nov 07, 2020
TV news is what you want it to be, and if you want it to be different, take a look at what you watch.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never really felt like a veteran. I've never felt like the guy who's like, 'OK, everyone needs to look up to me and respect me.' I've always just been one of the guys that people are excited to get in the ring with. That's all I want.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
America is full of readers of all different sorts who love books in many different ways, and I keep meeting them. And I think editors should look after them, and make less effort to please people who don't actually like books.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always say I write my own novels and the characters don't take control of me, but in fact, I look at the characters in the early stages and I think, 'What is he or she like,' and they slowly come together and they become the person they are.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not very interested in myself. I do have a deep moral belief that you should always look out at other things and not be self-centred.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity. If you look really hard at almost anybody, and try to see why they're doing what they're doing, taking a dig at them ceases to be what you want to do even if you hate them.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I watch a lot of sport on television. I only watch certain sports, and I only watch them live - I don't think I've ever been able to watch a replay of a match or game of which the result was already decided. I feel bound to cheat and look up what can be looked up.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was famous from the age of 13, and after a while you become immune to it - in a good way. You look at positives and what you can do with it.
- Gay
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- Nov 07, 2020